Case Study: Nexgate achieves real-time, scalable social media fraud detection and customer privacy protection with DataStax

Nexgate Secures Social Media, Protects Customer Privacy with DataStax

Nexgate, a recognized leader in social media security and compliance, faced rising risks from account hacking, publishing errors and brand fraud as customer engagement on social channels exploded. Their existing MySQL setup hit a scale wall and couldn’t deliver the performance or flexible, linear scaling needed for real-time trend monitoring and large, unpredictable volumes of social data.

After evaluating options, Nexgate adopted DataStax Enterprise (Cassandra) for its multi-master architecture, Solr integration and strong benchmarks. The new platform delivers real-time search, 100% uptime, and linear scale at lower cost; Nexgate now scans about one million items per day, handles peaks of ~80 reads/sec and 40 writes/sec, and achieves simpler operations and continuous protection of customer privacy.

Nexgate

Rich Sutton

Chief Technology Officer, Nexgate